Effect of grazing on the plant functional group diversity and community biomass and their relationship along a precipitation gradient in Inner Mongolia Steppe

Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1649-1656

  Wang, Guo Jie ^a,b   Wang, Shi Ping ^a,c   Hao, Yan Bin ^a,b   Cai, Xue Cai ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Belowground biomass; Functional group diversity; Grazing intensity; Inner Mongolia steppe

Indexed keywords

LEYMUS CHINENSIS; OVIS ARIES; POACEAE; SALSOLA; SALSOLA COLLINA; STIPA GRANDIS; STIPA KLEMENZII; XEROPHYTA;

EID: 23244452389     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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